A Tale of Five Heretics: Eddie Remains Eddie-ish.

Good news and bad news, my pretty chickens. The good news is that I just about have a new office now, after many hours of construction work, ballache, and cash money. It’s taken a long time, but the Aaronorium has gone from one room (a games room) to three (a games room, an office, and… I guess another games room).

The whole thing is basically a series of braced and insulated wooden rooms constructed inside a previous structure: the latter of which takes the form of these old linked farm sheds, which used to hold cows, mud, dust, mould, and the skeletons of five million dead birds. Perhaps even their ghosts, too. I lacked the requisite equipment to check for bird souls trapped between this life and the next.

Here’s a photo of me in a storm of rock dust, just after we finished grinding through the wall between the second and third rooms.

I’ll give you guys and girls a proper tour inside when it’s decorated in a week or two, but at least the fucker’s built.

Anyway, the bad news isn’t that I’m using all the construction work as an excuse for no progress. No, the lack of progress was because I’m me, and I’m eternally useless. I painted half of 3 World Eaters that I didn’t like, half of 1 Thallax that was too dark and which I hated, and built 4 Tau Stealth Suits (5 tau models in total if you count the marker drone – and let me assure you, you bastards, that I do. I take every teeny-tiny victory that I can.)

No, the bad news is that I had to sell a huge amount of my Heresy (and Blood Angels / Angels Numinous) stuff to recover from the financial ball-flicking of all the construction work. A treasure trove of bits, kits, and every bolter variant you can imagine, into the aether. It’s set me back no small degree, as well as being about as heartbreaking as the time I hocked all my RPG books on eBay to pay my rent for 3 months. That one still hurts. But needs must, right? Onwards and upwards.

Also my grandma died, and so did my car. But these events aren’t related, either to each other or to hobbying.

I’ve got a Myrmidon Destructor on my painting table at the moment, and he’s going to get some love in the next few days. I’ve also scavenged a chunk of Mechanicum models from here, there, and everywhere, so I may press-gang them into the firing line just to have something, anything, done – just to get myself going.

Either way, I’m down but not out. And it gives me an excuse to use the new Martian Ironearth, which looks lush. Anyone using that already? Reviews in the comments, please.

Rather than put the update off any more and wait for me and Neil to get our thumbs out, I wanted to show you what’s been done so far, because Jesus Christ, guys, for really reals, look:

Jordan’s been learning/using airbrushes for the first time, with some smugness-inducing results. He was the first to Go Big on the new Space Marine bases, but we’ve all done the same as well. (I’ve got them on my XV25s, too. They look rad.)

He’s got a huge-ass Forge World order on the go for next time, which is beautiful in its promise of midnight-clad carnage:

I always imagine Heresy Night Lords in Mark II, like, as the default image in my head, but the volkite squad up above has started swaying me towards Mark IV in a big way.

John’s been busy, too – he got his Blood Angel Command Squad done, with his next project already built:

It’s sort of weird how effective the simple helmet swaps are, ageing the models back to an entirely different era. I dig that.

My first thought at seeing them was “Oh, shit, I should do that with my Angels Numinous Sanguinary Guard”, and my second thought was “Oh, shit, I sold all the Sanguinary Guard boxes and now I’m sad.”

My third thought was “Damn you for doing stuff when I’ve been useless, John”.

And my fourth thought was probably about basketball, because although the Phoenix Suns are a hot mess, I still love them.

Without further ado, here’s Eddie with some more Fallen Angels, many of which reach between the 30K and 40K eras in irritatingly cool ways. I’ve seen a fair bit of Heresy Traitor armies that can double as Chaos Marine armies, and I’m always pretty taken with the idea, especially given how much more common it’ll be as the Heresy advances towards Terra.

These are the Iron Wardens of Aldurukh. Look upon them and despair.

No? Not enough for you?

Have some Fallen Angels Obliterators because Eddie was in the mood to do them:

And then, one of the Iron Riders of Caliban:

Sigh.

And in the man’s own words: “Those troublesome Dark Angels, left behind by the Lion on Caliban have been experimenting with forbidden Daemonology (when the cat’s away…)

So now, when they find themselves in a pickle, they can call in reinforcements on the fly (ba-dum-tish).”

I think it needs expressing again that he does these, out of boredom, while waiting for the rest of us.

And lastly, there’s a Fallen Angel Lord on a daemonic Black Lion of Caliban.

This makes me think two things:

1. Imagine Lion El’Jonson’s face when he goes home and sees the Fallen Angels again. “Hey, Luther, how are you guy d– OhmyfuckingGod.”

2. Even for Eddie this is pretty damn magical.

Update concluded, my lovelies.

More to come soon.

Late-Breaking Edit: Getting an unexpected expression of sympathy on FB and Twitter over the current impoverished state. Which is lovely! But honestly unnecessary. Yes, we’re currently dirt-poor, but it was a noble sacrifice that basically gave me a new office with two nice side rooms. Selling minis to cover a housing spending spree definitely sucks, but we’re not starving or homeless, so please don’t take my teeth-grinding confession of mini-selling as anything more than a hobbyist’s lament. (Plus, all the bitz went to good homes, so I’ll probably see a fair amount of those bitz shooting at me from across a table next year. Every cloud, silver linings, all that jazz. Thank you, though – what a surprisingly sweet reaction, you crazies.)